That's a (slight) shame - I quite enjoy spotting them on the occasions I go through the core.
(Though presumably now people have got the message!)
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Thameslink Services/Timetable from May 20th 2018
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Think they are still there
They were doing something but more likely just checking the station is structurally sound
Surprised the train shed wasn't pulled down
I wonder if, in time, they will sell the air rights (with a big concrete slab to bury the lines), in which case whoever builds over the top could be given the responsibility of dismantling the trainshed.
Same this morning due to a shortage of 8 car 700s.
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Why the shortage or is it due to numerous faults meaning they can't be used in traffic?
Also when they're outstabled away from GTR locations such as Orpington for example, what gets done to the units overnight? Is it just stabling or do they actually get tanked and cleaned overnight?
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Fixed!
Not sure on the specifics in this case other than Letchworth yard were short of a 700. It was the same again today with a 365 substituting for an RLU 700 on the same services.
Can't help with what happens at places like Orpington either I'm afraid as that's well off my patch.
david737
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Can't help with what happens at places like Orpington either I'm afraid as that's well off my patch.[/QUOTE]
There aren't any tanking facilities at Orpington (don't think there is at Bellingham sidings either) but there are cleaners so I think the stabled units do get swept out etc.
There aren't any tanking facilities at Orpington (don't think there is at Bellingham sidings either) but there are cleaners so I think the stabled units do get swept out etc.
Kite159
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You haven't been to Cambridge on the weekends as 365s have popped up on some of the Ely semi-fasts (along with 387s & 700s).
I guess a single unit needs to be used for the Cambridge stoppers due to the lack of SDO for the likes of Foxton & the other village stations
bramling
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Yes that’s exactly the reason, or to put it another way because the powers that be couldn’t be bothered to pay for proper platform lengthening.
365s to Cambridge and Ely cease from the new timetable. There’s only one booked working beyond Baldock, and that only goes as far as Royston.
700007
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Didn't we all say that this week last year and look what happened?
Graffiti!
Seriously though, the quality of the cleaning is noticeable between trains coming out of places like Cricklewood and Bedford compared to places like Bellingham and Sevenoaks.
They don't tank 700s anywhere in SE land as far as I know. They didn't even bother to clean them at all at Orpington sidings, Bellingham sidings and Sevenoaks siding for a long time and they'd routinely go out in the mornings full of the night before's detritus. That was related to the incident at West Marina depot where a cleaner died and Wettons and Southeastern were fined millions of pounds for health and safety breaches. The cleaners are going back in the sidings again now. Link to the story here: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...-wettons-fined-36m-cleaners-death-roger-lower
There is tanking at Orpington.
Didn't they have to stop using it because of health and safety reasons though? Not enough light and space, too close to live electricity etc. I could be wrong but I was pretty certain they'd stopped tanking trains there - they certainly did for a long while. Even when the cleaners started going back in I don't think they were tanking trains. Although maybe its back in use now. I've not really paid it much thought.
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